Sports Presentation Night – Friday 7 November

The 2025 TAS Sports Presentation Evening will be held on Friday 7 November at the Lostroh Centre from 5.50pm.

Please note that the Junior School Sport awards will be separate event to the secondary awards night on Friday 7 November. The Junior School Sport awards will be embedded into the end of year Presentation Night as per previous years.

Secondary students who are receiving an award for TAS Sport for 2025, will be invited to join the WestMAC Sports Department for the Sports Presentation Evening. Parents of students receiving an award will receive an email with the relevant information about attendance shortly. Students and families who are not receiving an award are also welcome to attend.

2026 TAS Sport

Preparation for Term 1 Sport is currently underway. In Term 4, Years 6-11 students will be invited to attend pre-season training for the following sports:

• Boys Cricket and Volleyball
• Girls Basketball, Football and Tennis
• Boys and Girls Swimming
• Boys and Girls High Performance Gym
• Swimming

Information regarding 2026 TAS sign-on and pre-season training will be available on the College App and NEST shortly.

Term 4 Junior TAS and TAS Swimming Training – Commencing Week 3

Commencing Week 3, Junior TAS and TAS pre-season swimming training will be held each Friday morning from 6.45am to 7.45am at the College Pool. Training is open to all Year 2 to Year 11 students who are wanting to push for TAS and Junior TAS Team selection in Term 1 next year. Please note, this is not a Learn to Swim Program and all students must be able to swim 25m unassisted with ease. Students who are unable to swim 50m unassisted will not be able to attend training. If you have any questions or concerns with this, please let Mrs Janine Richardson (jrichardson@wmac.com.au) know.

Term 4 Junior TAS Sport – Touch Football and Tennis

The Junior TAS Touch Football and Tennis draw is available on the College App and NEST. The first round of tennis begins this Saturday and runs for five weeks. Tennis will be played in a home and away format with the Intra-College team playing their fixtures at WestMAC on Friday afternoon’s.

Junior TAS Touch Football will be played at Ormiston College on Saturday 18 and Saturday 1 November. Please note, that it is important that students are available to play both weekends so we have enough to fill teams. Please let Mr Hogan know immediately if your student is unavailable to play a fixture.

Parents and students are to refer to the College App and NEST for information regarding training schedules and draws.

All-Schools Touch Football

Last week, WestMAC’s U13, U15, and U18 Girls teams travelled to Runaway Bay to compete in the Queensland All-Schools Touch Football Competition. With teams coming from across the state and beyond, All-Schools is recognised as the largest touch football carnival in the world, featuring over 450 teams in this year’s event.

This was by far our most successful year to date. The U13 Girls finished 2nd in their pool and progressed to the final 16. After scores were locked at full time, their knockout match went to drop-offs, with both WestMAC and Southport reduced to just three players each. Unfortunately, Southport managed to score the winning try to advance to the final eight, but it was a tremendous effort from our young team.

The U15 Girls finished 4th in their pool, securing four wins and two losses in a particularly competitive division. Meanwhile, the U18 Girls also reached the finals stage, placing 2nd in their pool with an impressive record of five wins and just one loss—that loss coming against the strong Cathedral College from Rockhampton. In the finals, WestMAC faced the top-seeded St Aidan’s team, who were chasing their fifth consecutive title. After taking an early 1–0 lead, WestMAC eventually went down 6–1 in a spirited performance against one of the best teams in the State.

A heartfelt thank you to our dedicated coaches—Mr Acton, Miss Plummer, Ms McLellan, Mrs van Deventer, Mrs Turner, and Mrs Paulette Oldham—for their passion, guidance, and commitment throughout the week.  

Congratulations to

• Scarlett Long, Year 12, for being selected in the Queensland 17-19 Years Hockey Team after a successful carnival representing Met West last term. Scarlett has been a key member of the Premiership winning Firsts for a several years and we will be sad to see her depart later in the year. Congratulations, Scarlett!
• Mason Cumming, Jake Horsnell and Nate Hillier (shadow) on being selected in the 13-14 Years Met West Cricket Team to contest the State Championships in Rockhampton later in the year. Our very own Mr Mitchell Thompson will coach this team and we wish them all the very best for the State Championships.
• Piper Thompson, Willa Sio and Emily Cobb from Junior School who participated in the U12 Basketball State Championships in the holidays. Piper and Willa's team placed 4^th in Division 1 (top four in the State!) and Emily's team won the gold medal in Division 4! Congratulations girls!
• Emme Sio and Abbey Wright from Middle School for their representation at the U14 Club Nationals in Willetton, Western Australia at the end of September. Both girls played brilliantly and should be proud of their efforts!

Rob Hillier 

Head of Sport